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Scouts Victoria is just one of the organisations keen to change the state government’s plan for a container deposit scheme.

Victoria under pressure to change container deposit scheme model We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Scouts, local sporting clubs and charities have joined drinks manufacturers Lion Nathan and Coca-Cola Amatil in a bid to pressure the Victorian government to overhaul its model for a container deposit scheme over concerns it will be harder for community groups to make money. Victoria will be the last state to roll out a scheme once it’s operational in 2023, when customers will receive a 10-cent refund...

Hungerford Bookshop says #Stay-home-and-read Trish Lee  '); There are some fantastic new books to look forward to in 2021 and while the lockdown is in place it’s a great time to stay inside and read. We asked EMMA MILNE-WHITE from our award-winning local independent Hungerford Bookshop for the heads-up on fiction to look forward to. LET’S start with a novel that’s getting a lot of press and radio attention. Mrs Death Misses Death, by the performance poet Salena Godden is published on January 21. Death, in this book, is a black working-class woman. Exhausted from spending eternity doing...

Books: The best new reads hitting the bookshelves this year Turning the page on another year, experts offer their predictions of what's going to be hot in the world of books for 2021... What will you be reading in 2021? 06 January, 2021 01:00 There will be a bumper crop of new books published this year thanks to the pandemic's effect on 2020's schedule IT'S going to be a sizzling year for new books in 2021, from dazzling debuts and celebrity memoirs to tomes exploring diversity, as well as light-hearted reads and even a revisiting of Bridget Jones. Many key ti...

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury) The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria. The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking) Last year the Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel. Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N) A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins as a proposal to refurbish a village church ends in murder; Canon Daniel Clement must investigate. O...